Centres of Learning

Jan Willem Drijvers, Ph.D. (1989) in Ancient History, University of Groningen, where he is Lecturer in Ancient History. He has published in the area of Late Antiquity, in particular on the Empress Helena (Helena Augusta, the Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of her Finding of the True Cross, (Brill, 1992).Alasdair MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) in English, University of Edinburgh, is professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published on various aspects of medieval English (especially Middle Scots) literature.

• FROM AN ANTIQUE LANDOn the Old Babylonian Eduba Curriculum, H.L.J. VanstiphoutLearning and Power during the Sargonid Period', M.E. VogelzangThe Family and Other Centres of Religious Learning in Antiquity, Jan N. BremmerThe Christian 'School' of Alexandria in the Second and Third Centuries, Roelof van den BroekThe School of Edessa: Greek Learning and Local Culture, Han J.W. DrijversEX ORIENTE LUXEastward and Westward Transmission of Classical Rhetoric, John W. Watt'Edessa grew dim and Nisibis shone forth': The School of Nisibis at the Transition of the Sixth-Seventh Century,G.J. ReininkThe Koran and its Exegesis: from Memorising to Learning, Fred LeemhuisArabic Didactic Verse, Geert Jan van GelderThe Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam, Wolfhart HeinrichsBaghdad, Bologna, and Scholasticism, George MakdisiCLOISTERS AND SCHOOLSOld Law and New-Found Power: Hrabanus Maurus and the Old Testament, Mayke de JongScientific and Spiritual Culture in Hugh of St Victor, Jan W.M. van ZwietenAndrew of St Victor (d.1175): Scholar between Cloister and School, F.A. van LiereLearning by Experience: Twelfth-Century Monastic Ideas, I. van 't SpijkerThe Development of Lombardian Theology, 1160-1215, Marcia L. ColishAcademic Heresy and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Paris, 1200-1378, J.M.M.H. ThijssenLudwig the Bavarian and the Scholars, Dick E.H. de BoerThe Reclusorium as an Informal Centre of Learning, Anneke B. Mulder-BakkerJohn Bromyard and the Hereford Dominicans, Peter BinkleyEXPANDING HORIZONSClassical Learning and the Building of Power at the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Court, A.J. VanderjagtAucuns Petis Enseignemens: 'Homemade' Courtesy Books in Medieval France, Anne Marie De GendtThe Renaissance Household as Centre of Learning, A.A. MacDonaldThe Scottish Chapel Royal as Cultural Intermediary between Town and Court, Theo van Heijnsbergen'Liberation from the Trivial Yoke': Dutch Renaissance Educators and their Cultural and Socio-Political Objectives, Catrien SantingLatin Literature in Early Modern Groningen, F. AkkermanNotes on Contributors

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